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Mark V. Albert - emva.net

Graduate Researcher
Field* of Computational Biology
Department of Psychology
Program* in Neuroscience
Cornell University

Advised by Professor David Field


Research Interests in brief:
  • visual statistics of the natural world
  • computational perception/neuroscience
  • early visual cortical processing
By evolution and experience, animal visual processing has adapted to the statistics of our natural environment to maximize both speed and metabolic efficiency. This has lead to complex visual systems with striking regularities among many animal species in terms of early cortical and pre-cortical coding. It is critical to our understanding that we establish the link between the guiding principles of computational efficiency and this resulting neural code. The primary approach I will take involves studying the statistics of natural scenes to explain the response properties of neurons in early visual cortex.


   
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* Field: the formal degree program and group affiliation of a graduate student at Cornell.
Department: the de facto collection of faculty and students.
Program: loosely defined... in this case an umbrella collection of faculty, graduate students, and post-docs in many different fields and departments with interests in neuroscience.

Last modified: November 21 2005